Every once in a while I run across a weapon that just seems perfect for its intended purpose. The new Rock River Arms Elite Comp seems as though it was designed from the ground up as a patrol carbine, with each of its features created to meet the needs of that mission.

Coming from the old school of cops with revolvers, I was never a big fan of lights attached to a gun. But today's weapon-mounted lights and laser sights dance circles around traditional flashlights when it comes to practical illumination while holding a firearm.

Midwest Industries' Back Up Iron Sight (BUIS) has a simple, rugged design. Made from 6061 aluminum that is mil-spec hard coat anodized, it comes with a lifetime warranty. The sight's standard dual aperture is fully protected from accidental damage.

When it comes to gear and gadgets for duty applications, many of us are drawn to the coolest, most expensive items. That's true of weapons and it's true of weapon accessories such as optics. But what's more important is to find the right optics to fit your mission. Options include red dot sights, variable focal length short scopes often used on shotguns, and of course true precision scopes meant for use on a precision rifle.

So successful was the 7.62 x 51mm rifle designed for the military that DPMS officials decided to build a 5.56 x 45mm version of the gun. Called, appropriately enough, the Mini SASS, this new rifle has many of the same features that made its big brother so popular.

The New GG&G A2 Spring Actuated Back Up Iron Sight (BUIS) deploys with just the push of a button, even with your off hand. Its mechanism captivates the actuator spring and mechanical components, preventing adverse environmental contact. The locking mechanism functions for both the raised and lowered position, preventing accidental raising or lowering of the sight.

Lightweight, waterproof, and shockproof, Sightmark’s Dual Shot is distinguished from other reflex sights by its accompanying laser that is in parallel precision for the highest accuracy when shooting at even the fastest moving targets, and by its 0 to infinity usage capabilities. The laser can also be removed from the Dual Shot for use on its own, or reattached depending on preference.

Simply put, the LRT-SASS is an AR-15 on steroids. It is larger in size, larger in caliber, and heavier in weight. The LRT-SASS I used for this review arrived in a padded “gun case” with the owner’s manuals, two 19-round magazines, one LRT with four position handguards with covers, Mangonel front/rear flip-up sights, a sling, and a Harris bipod—all in all, a ready-to-use package.

C More Systems' Tactical sight is designed to meet the requirements of a sight for daily duty use. The sight, a tubeless heads-up model designed to mount on a flat top AR, comes with an A2-type iron sight so the dot and iron sights can be co-witnessed.

AccuScope, a sight-in reference tool for scopes, allows you to easily and accurately sight in a firearm scope. With the user providing the shooting distance from the target and the number of inches off center, the AccuScope slide chart calculates the precise number of “clicks” to adjust both the windage and elevation simultaneously to help the shooter put the next shot on center.

Applicable to PVS-14 Monoculars and PVS-7 Goggles, the Morovision 10X Lens Adapter can be quickly fitted into the filter thread of the objective lens of a system, converting it into a long-range night sighting device. The 10X lens offers a relative four-degree field of view, depending on the amount of ambient light available during operation. The lens adapter can also be used as a standalone 10x 40mm daytime spotting scope.

Each year the National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc. stages one of the nation’s largest exhibits of new products in the firearms and hunting markets, the Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoors Trade (SHOT) Show. Here’s our look at some of the more intriguing items that we saw in the aisles.

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